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Lot 26
A rare Meissen dish circa 1730
25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £9,600 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA rare Meissen dish
circa 1730
Of oblong shape, painted in Kakiemon style with wheat sheaves and scattered indianische Blumen over an elaborate diaper pattern, the reverse painted with scattered flowers, 20.3cm wide, caduceus mark in underglaze-blue
Of oblong shape, painted in Kakiemon style with wheat sheaves and scattered indianische Blumen over an elaborate diaper pattern, the reverse painted with scattered flowers, 20.3cm wide, caduceus mark in underglaze-blue
Footnotes
Provenance:
Acquired in 1984
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 163
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
Another dish of this shape but with a diagonal decoration is illustrated in the catalogue of Meissen Porcelain from a private collection in Bad Pyrmont (Lemcke 2002, p.75). A highly comparable dish of the same shape but with a diagonal brocade pattern of lozenges and flying fox and squirrel among banded hedges was sold at Christie's London, 10 July 2007, lot 74.
